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Re: [cobalt-users] telnet on raq3 allows users to view source ofother sites



At 04:39 PM 2/19/00 +0100, you wrote:
> I believe this is generally the case with telnet access. Any user can read
> any file on the server, although the files he/she does not have ownership
> to
> cannot be modified or deleted.

but cobalt has defined specific groups, so a user from group 1 should not be able to read anything from group 2 ?

If files are NOT world readable, then how would you expect your Internet browser to see them, to read them, to use them?

Of course, this could be done, with a lot of extensive group ownership modification.

It requires a lot of expertise and a lot of testing. And a lot of newly installed programs would probably not work out-of-the-box.

The default way, used by most servers, is the way the RaQs do it by default.

Jeff

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